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Chemistry World
June 5, 2012
Simon Perks
Chiral separation with micro-flows How do you separate enantiomers without any kind of chiral recognition between molecules? The answer it seems is to use asymmetric flow in a micro-fluidic channel. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 24, 2009
Nina Notman
Chiral isotropic liquids from achiral molecules Boomerang-shaped liquid crystal phase molecules that don't exhibit 'handedness' (chirality) have been found to form unusual chiral structures that spontaneously separate into left- and right-handed domains. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 3, 2011
Erica Wise
A Model for the Single Chirality of Life The boiling solutions in prebiotic hot springs could shed light on the emergence of a single chiral form of biomolecules in nature, say Spanish scientists. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reactive Reports
Issue 33
David Bradley
Two-faced Liquid Crystals A new class of programmable liquid crystals could be used to make variable optical filters for laboratory instrumentation and digital cameras; they might even be used to treat dyslexia. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 5, 2014
Andy Extance
Rotaxanes make symmetry history A UK team has stumbled upon an efficient way to separately produce each member of an unusual mirror image pair of chemical systems that has eluded scientists for over four decades. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 26, 2007
Tom Westgate
Counterion Does the Twist US chemists have achieved a breakthrough in the design of catalysts that selectively produce chiral compounds. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 19, 2009
Hayley Birch
Chiral metals shape up for catalysis Dutch and Israeli scientists have found a way to induce the chirality usually only found in organic materials in palladium. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 28, 2007
Victoria Gill
New Limits Set on Chirality Researchers have set a new standard in stereochemistry. Measuring Raman optical activity, they have confirmed the spatial arrangement of a molecule with almost impossibly subtle chirality: (R)-[ 2H 1, 2H 2, 2H 3]-neopentane. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 18, 2014
Michael Parkin
Separation by levitation A team in the US has shown that enantiopure and racemic crystals can be separated by magnetic levitation. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 26, 2010
Amaya Camara-Campos
Enriching the origin of life theory An enantioenrichment of the amino acid valine, which could shed light on the origin of chirality on Earth, has been achieved by scientists in Spain. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 2, 2007
Philip Ball
Giving Life a Hand Why are proteins left-handed and nucleic acids right-handed? Once offered only a few sketchy theories, scientists have found more alternatives for creating homochirality. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 16, 2013
Harriet Brewerton
Accelerating stereochemical analysis A chemosensor has been developed by scientists in the US to speed up the quantitative stereochemical analysis of chiral amino alcohols and diamines. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 11, 2008
Victoria Gill
Fish Scales Hold Dazzling Secret Scientists in Israel have discovered the surprising secrets of the specialized crystals in fish skin that allow them to shimmer. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 8, 2011
Jon Cartwright
Carbon nanotubes - a boon for chiral catalysts Researchers in China have created a new catalyst that could help in the production of chiral molecules for medical drugs. The catalyst, which consists of platinum nanoparticles encapsulated in carbon nanotubes, is the most active of its type ever reported. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 17, 2008
Hayley Birch
Colloids twist like DNA French scientists have used magnetic colloids to make self-assembling, helical structures reminiscent of DNA mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 28, 2013
Jennifer Newton
Crystal within a crystal Colleagues at the University of Strasbourg used a molecular tectonics strategy to prepare the crystals. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 18, 2012
Phillip Broadwith
Caffeine crystals with an elastic bent Indian chemists have discovered a highly elastic but crystalline material made from caffeine. The crystals maintain their elasticity down to -100 C. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 25, 2011
Fiona McKenzie
Poking Aspirin with a Sharp Stick Scientists have found a way to go one better than x-ray crystallography to examine pharmaceutical crystals at an even deeper level. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 30, 2013
Andy Extance
Catalyst duo exerts powerful stereocontrol Chemists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, have teamed chiral catalysts in pairs to selectively drive a reaction towards desired stereoisomeric products with high selectivity. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 6, 2009
Phillip Broadwith
Enzyme binds both sides of the mirror European chemists have discovered that both mirror-image forms of a particular compound can bind at the same time in the same site of an enzyme, a phenomenon that has never been seen before. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 28, 2008
Lewis Brindley
Changing the face of a water splitting catalyst Australian chemists have grown crystals of the water-splitting catalyst titanium dioxide that are many times more reactive than usual. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 2, 2010
Lewis Brindley
Reactions in a crystal Crystals that can alter their composition without changing the structure of their solid lattice have been developed by US researchers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 6, 2006
Michael Gross
Selective Shortcut Chemists have developed a simple catalyst that speeds up the synthesis of a chiral protected building block used in many complex syntheses. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 9, 2013
Daniel Johnson
Mystery of jumping crystals solved The riddle of why a certain type of crystal leaps more than 10,000 times its length when exposed to light may have been solved. The crystals' rapid movement is a result of stresses generated in the crystal when light induces a structural change within it. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 25, 2014
Hayley Simon
Breakup reaction hints at handedness of nature The breakup of 3-bromocamphor molecules bombarded by polarized electrons has given a tantalizing hint of the origins of biological homochirality -- nature's preference for one mirror image of a molecule over another. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 1, 2009
Hayley Birch
How light gave life a helping hand A new theory for how 'handedness' in organic molecules evolved has been proposed by Dutch scientists. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 18, 2010
Akshat Rathi
Cellulose used to make smart window materials Using nanocrystalline cellulose from wood pulp, Canadian researchers have for the first time prepared mesoporous chiral nematic structured silica materials that may have potential as tuneable reflective filters in smart windows mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2006
Jack Uldrich
Harris & Harris Looks to Separate New technology could lead to safer, more effective drugs. Because of proprietary reasons, it's unlikely that ENS will be able to publicly announce when Big Pharma companies have licensed its technology, but Harris & Harris investors have reason to be optimistic. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 3, 2015
Elisabeth Ratcliffe
Electric switch makes helix change hands Application of an electric field in the direction opposite to that of the macrodipole reverses the handedness of the structure. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 26, 2015
Victoria Richards
Crystalline sponge method strikes again Scientists from Japan report that their revolutionary crystallographic technique has determined the stereochemistries of molecules with axial and planar chiralities, where classical methods had failed. mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
April 9, 2003
Liquid crystals go 3D Researchers from Sheffield University in England and the University of Pennsylvania have unlocked some of the secrets of liquid crystals, materials that self-assemble into lattices of geometric shapes that are neither solid nor liquid, but somewhere between. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 29, 2006
Cash Injection for Zeolite Crystal Growth A fundamental study into crystal growth has grabbed the attention of global industrial oil companies. The porous aluminosilicate structures are used in catalysis for turning oil into petrol, and the details of how they grow on the atomic scale remain a mystery. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 23, 2009
Hayley Birch
Speeding up screening for chiral catalysts U.S. researchers say their method represents a 'standard workhorse' for discovery and optimisation of chiral catalysts, such as those widely used by the pharmaceutical and pesticide industries. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 6, 2012
Laura Howes
Mobius molecules with a twist Glasgow-based chemists have managed to make a chiral molecule from achiral starting materials by using a simple Mo 4O 8 unit to introduce a twist to the cluster and turn it into a Mobius strip. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 29, 2009
James Urquhart
Huge pores in zeolite molecular sieve Researchers in Spain and Sweden have synthesized and structurally determined a new kind of crystalline molecular sieve with extra large holes and chiral properties. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reactive Reports
May 2007
David Bradley
Meeting of Molecular Movie Stars New footage confirms Linus Pauling's theory of chemical bonding proposed half a century ago, and could help explain molecular recognition processes important throughout supramolecular chemistry and molecular biology. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 3, 2013
Alison Rodger
VCD spectroscopy for organic chemists I highly recommend VCD Spectroscopy, by Philip Stephens and others, for organic chemists as the textbook of choice on this useful topic. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 1, 2008
Victoria Gill
Snapshots Reveal Bone Mineral's Strength Secret Researchers in the Netherlands have produced the first real-time, three-dimensional images of the formation of calcium carbonate crystals, a robust biological mineral that holds promise as a future bone replacement material. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 10, 2011
James Urquhart
Molecular motor controls chirality A single molecule catalytic system that uses a light driven molecular motor to dynamically control the molecule's chiral states has been developed by scientists in the Netherlands. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 24, 2013
David Bradley
Microwaves show their hand The chirality of a gas phase molecule held in an electric field can be revealed using microwave spectroscopy. Hooking the technique to a separation step might even be exploited to isolate a specific enantiomer from a racemic mixture of both forms. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 24, 2012
Jon Evans
Can magma crystals predict eruptions? Mineral crystals blasted out from volcanoes can provide a window into the powerful processes going on inside those volcanoes, say UK and German earth scientists. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 6, 2013
Melissae Fellet
Unravelling stereochemistry via mass spectrometry Researchers have used mass spectrometry to determine the stereochemistry of a prototypical chiral molecule, CHBrClF. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 20, 2007
Lewis Brindley
New Catalyst Rings the Changes Organic chemists in the US have developed a method to control the stereochemistry of a useful intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 27, 2014
Simon Hadlington
Popcorn-like explosion of single crystals explained Chemists have created single crystals of metal coordination complexes that explode violently when exposed to UV light, leaping high into the air. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
June 2007
Megan Sever
Colossal Crystals Discovered in Cave In one of the largest lead and silver mines in the world, workers discovered what researchers are calling the "cathedral" of giant gypsum crystals about 300 meters below ground. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 15, 2015
Tim Wogan
Long range chirality transfer observed A new method to detect biomolecules by using a plasmonic nanoparticle to transfer their chirality onto an achiral dye has been developed by researchers mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 16, 2008
Simon Hadlington
Nano-embrace makes insulators conduct Scientists in The Netherlands have discovered that placing two highly insulating compounds next to each other creates an interface between them that conducts electricity. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 18, 2011
Steve Down
Cofactor Control of Catalysis Enantioselectivity Scientists have used cofactors to control the enantioselectivity of supramolecular transition metal catalysts, enabling the asymmetric hydrogenation of a series of acrylates and related compounds with remarkably high selectivities. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 7, 2014
Emma Stoye
Crystal ribbons grow on a curve Colleagues at Harvard University in the US investigated the effects of elastic stress on crystals, which is increased by growing them on a curved surface rather than a flat one. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 20, 2014
James Urquhart
Nanoparticle composites make colorful magnetic crystals Incorporating nanoparticles into single crystal materials can imbue them with new properties, such as color and magnetism, thanks to gel crystallization techniques developed independently by UK and Chinese research groups. mark for My Articles similar articles